We are quickly approaching the deadline for filing (and paying) our federal and state income taxes, and that means it’s time for an annual post to help put things in perspective. Let's start with some historical perspective: when income tax began in 1913, the maximum marginal income was only 7% on incomes above what would be more than $12 million in today's dollars.
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. listens at left as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, following their meeting with President Donald Trump inside. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
(REPORT) — In a vote Monday night almost exclusively along party lines, a measure to force the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to reveal President Donald Trump’s tax returns was blocked by the U.S. House.
(ANTIMEDIA) Earlier this month, the IRS made a seemingly insignificant change to its policy, undermining the Obamacare mandate in a very significant way.
“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.” — Friedrich Engels
Despite the polls in the run up to November 8, 2016, and the post-election shenanigans that continue to this day, the United States has a new President, and it is not Hillary Clinton. There are many reasons for this, and Charles Ortel’s dogged, two-year investigation of the Clintons’ predatory humanitarianism is a major one. He is not yet done.
“Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?” M. CICERONIS TULLI ORATIO IN L. CATILINAM PRIMA
Intelligence authorization, spy kids and the art of misdirection + this day in history w/Encyclopædia Britannica and our song of the day by Kaiser Chiefs on your Morning Monarchy for December 6, 2016.
Americans wake up to the rigged economy and meaningless elections; Wall Street answers the phone when you dial 911; and the social engineers plan food riots.
